Mapping Terms I
This is the method of transferring location on the Erath surface to a flat map, during which distortion happens.
What is projection?
Geographically, the opposite of diversity; a homogenizing force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something wordwide in scope.
What is globalization?
The earth is divided into this many time zones, one for each hour of the day.
What is 24?
What two tools does geography use the most?
What are maps and computer systems (GPS, GIS, etc.)
Characteristics of a site.
What are climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, & elevation.
This is the method of pinpointing location using signals from satellites.
What is GPS?
This is the relative location of a place compared to another.
What is situation?
The time at the prime meridian is called this.
What is Greenwich Mean Time?
GIS stands for this.
What is geographic information system?
These are terms for the two ends of the spectrum of concentration.
What are clustered and dispersed?
This is acquiring data (usually photos) from a platform above the earth.
What is remote sensing?
This is a computer system that processes geographic data.
What is GIS?
This kind of region has characteristics shared in common or a population that has characteristics shared in common.
What is a formal region?
Meridians and parallels, the parameters of mathematical location, are also called these.
What are latitude and longitude?
Human geographers are interested in things like climate and vegetation, and soil primary for this reason.
What is food production?
A Greek-derived term for a place name.
What is a toponym?
The physical character of a place.
What is site?
A region that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity. The "bible belt" is an example.
What is a vernacular region?
What are geographers trying to show by using the Big Mac index?
What are globalization, investment patterns, diversity, exchange rates, etc.
These are the four kinds of density.
This is the relation of a feature on a map to its actual size on the earth.
What is scale?
Two-dimensional scale model of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
What is a map?
Geography can be divided into these two broad categories.
What are physical and human?
What special information does a topographical map provide?
What are elevation and relief?